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Dayton

By: Laura Tennant and Jack Folmar

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Dayton's history begins with Nevada's first gold discovery in July 1849. It started with a California-bound pack train, led by trail guide Abner Blackburn, setting up camp at the mouth of a canyon that drained into the Carson River. While waiting for the snow to melt in the Sierra, Blackburn went prospecting and dug gold from the creek bed. The news of his discovery spread, and prospectors rushed to the site they called Gold Cañon--today's Dayton. In May 1851, diarist Lucena Pfuffer Parsons, traveling with a wagon train, camped at the site and reported about 200 miners living in the canyon. She noted that they were finding enough gold to trade for supplies. In 1859, after working their way up the canyon, miners discovered a large silver and gold deposit known as the Comstock Lode. This discovery led Nevada to statehood in 1864.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467133264

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9781467133265

Taming the Storm

The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the South's Fight Over Civil Rights

By: Jack Bass

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Taming the Storm

The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the South's Fight Over Civil Rights

By: Jack Bass

Thrust into the center of a raging storm over civil rights, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., was the youngest federal judge in the country at the time of his appointment in 1955. During his twenty-four years on the district court in Montgomery, Alabama, Johnson handed down a string of precedent-setting decisions that were vastly unpopular at the time but that would prove to have profound consequences for America's future. Not only did Johnson's trailblazing opinions greatly expand the access of African Americans to their constitutional rights, but his opinions also helped to dismantle discrimination against women, prison inmates, and the mentally ill. Johnson paid a heavy price for his judicial vision, however, for he had to endure public scorn, death threats, and the outrage of a society that felt itself and its values to be under siege. Eventually Johnson prevailed, winning honor even in his native Alabama and a respected place in the history of the civil rights movement. Taming the Storm is the story of an authentic American hero and the era he did so much to define.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820325317

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9780820325316

Jack M. Campbell

The Autobiography of New Mexico's First Modern Governor

By: Jack M. Campbell

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Jack M. Campbell

The Autobiography of New Mexico's First Modern Governor

By: Jack M. Campbell

25: Into Science: Satellites, Technet, and Complexity (1969-1990) -- Note on Sources by Charles C. Poling -- Index -- Back Cover

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826357148

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9780826357144

The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862-1863

By: Jack H. Lepa

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The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862-1863

By: Jack H. Lepa

In 1862, with the outcome of the Civil War far from sure, leaders on both sides began to pinpoint places vital for their army's success. For both Union and Confederate forces, Tennessee was a prize. Drawing on contemporary sources such as memoirs and official correspondence, this book details the struggle for control of Tennessee during 1862 and 1863. It follows troop movements through some of1the worst battles, including Shiloh, Stone's River and Chickamauga. The Union victory at the battle of Chattanooga--which brought Tennessee definitively under Union control--and its consequences for both sides are discussed in detail.

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McFarland

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1476604673

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9781476604671

Grant's River Campaign

Fort Henry to Shiloh

By: Jack H. Lepa

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Grant's River Campaign

Fort Henry to Shiloh

By: Jack H. Lepa

In Tennessee in the early months of 1862, Ulysses S. Grant captured forts Henry and Donelson and opened the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers to military and commercial shipping. In April the first of many terrible battles of the Civil War was fought near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River around a decrepit meeting-house known as Shiloh. This costly victory established Federal control over much of central Tennessee. These early Union victories gave the Federals control of two of the major rivers in the region--the highways of the period--opening large areas of the Confederacy to Federal invasion. Other important results were the end of the Confederate threat to control Kentucky and possibly close off the Ohio River. These victories also were a major factor in forcing the abandonment of a key Confederate fort on the Mississippi River at Columbus, Kentucky. This book describes not only the actual fighting that took place but how important political and economic factors influenced the overall military strategy in the region.

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0786474777

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9780786474776

Dayton

By: Laura Tennant and Jack Folmar

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By: Laura Tennant and Jack Folmar

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Taming the Storm

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The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862-1863

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